The Jungle

Author : Upton Sinclair
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191624918
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jungle written by Upton Sinclair and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-08-19 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A searing novel of social realism, Upton Sinclair's The Jungle follows the fortunes of Jurgis Rudkus, an immigrant who finds in the stockyards of turn-of-the-century Chicago a ruthless system that degrades and impoverishes him, and an industry whose filthy practices contaminate the meat it processes. From the stench of the killing-beds to the horrors of the fertilizer-works, the appalling conditions in which Jurgis works are described in intense detail by an author bent on social reform. So powerful was the book's message that it caught the eye of President Theodore Roosevelt and led to changes to the food hygiene laws. In his Introduction to this new edition, Russ Castronovo highlights the aesthetic concerns that were central to Sinclair's aspirations, examining the relationship between history and historical fiction, and between the documentary impulse and literary narrative. As he examines the book's disputed status as novel (it is propaganda or literature?), he reveals why Sinclair's message-driven fiction has relevance to literary and historical matters today, now more than a hundred years after the novel first appeared in print.

Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jungle Book written by Rudyard Kipling and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Author : Upton Sinclair
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.1V/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jungle written by Upton Sinclair and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448155746
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jungle Books written by Rudyard Kipling and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-06-30 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jungle Books tell the story of the irrepressible Mowgli, who is rescued as a baby from the jaws of the evil tiger, Shere Khan. Raised by wolves and guided by Baloo the bear, Mowgli and his animal friends embark on a series of hair-raising adventures through the jungles of India.

Author : Upton Sinclair
Publisher : Ten Speed Graphic
ISBN 13 : 1984856499
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jungle written by Upton Sinclair and published by Ten Speed Graphic. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling graphic novel adaptation of Upton Sinclair's seminal protest novel that brings to life the harsh conditions and exploited existences of immigrants in Chicago's meatpacking industry in the early twentieth century. Long acclaimed around the world, Upton Sinclair's 1906 muckraking novel The Jungle remains a powerful book even today. Not many works of literature can boast that their publication brought about actual social and labor change, but that's just what The Jungle did, as it led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. In today's society, where labor and safety of the food we eat remain key concerns for all, Sinclair's shocking story still resonates. Bringing new life and energy to this classic work, adapter and illustrator Kristina Gehrmann takes Sinclair's prose and transforms it through pen and ink, allowing you to discover (or rediscover) this book and see it from a whole new perspective.

Author : Neal Hoffman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615990538
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Publisher : Enchanted Lion Books
ISBN 13 : 9781592702305
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jungle written by and published by Enchanted Lion Books. This book was released on 2018 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out of the morning mist a vast ocean of leaves appears. What lies beneath--the varied and teeming life of animals and plants--is vividly portrayed through the cycle of day and night in the jungle world. Considered Helen Borten's masterpiece,The Jungle was inspired by a trip to Guatemala in 1967, when few others were going there--let alone a woman--to seek out images and stories to share with children back in the US.

Author : Deborah Blum
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143111124
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poison Squad written by Deborah Blum and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book The inspiration for PBS's AMERICAN EXPERIENCE film The Poison Squad. From Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Deborah Blum, the dramatic true story of how food was made safe in the United States and the heroes, led by the inimitable Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, who fought for change By the end of nineteenth century, food was dangerous. Lethal, even. "Milk" might contain formaldehyde, most often used to embalm corpses. Decaying meat was preserved with both salicylic acid, a pharmaceutical chemical, and borax, a compound first identified as a cleaning product. This was not by accident; food manufacturers had rushed to embrace the rise of industrial chemistry, and were knowingly selling harmful products. Unchecked by government regulation, basic safety, or even labelling requirements, they put profit before the health of their customers. By some estimates, in New York City alone, thousands of children were killed by "embalmed milk" every year. Citizens--activists, journalists, scientists, and women's groups--began agitating for change. But even as protective measures were enacted in Europe, American corporations blocked even modest regulations. Then, in 1883, Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, a chemistry professor from Purdue University, was named chief chemist of the agriculture department, and the agency began methodically investigating food and drink fraud, even conducting shocking human tests on groups of young men who came to be known as, "The Poison Squad." Over the next thirty years, a titanic struggle took place, with the courageous and fascinating Dr. Wiley campaigning indefatigably for food safety and consumer protection. Together with a gallant cast, including the muckraking reporter Upton Sinclair, whose fiction revealed the horrific truth about the Chicago stockyards; Fannie Farmer, then the most famous cookbook author in the country; and Henry J. Heinz, one of the few food producers who actively advocated for pure food, Dr. Wiley changed history. When the landmark 1906 Food and Drug Act was finally passed, it was known across the land, as "Dr. Wiley's Law." Blum brings to life this timeless and hugely satisfying "David and Goliath" tale with righteous verve and style, driving home the moral imperative of confronting corporate greed and government corruption with a bracing clarity, which speaks resoundingly to the enormous social and political challenges we face today.

Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher : Giunti Editore
ISBN 13 : 9788844008635
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jungle book stories written by Rudyard Kipling and published by Giunti Editore. This book was released on 1998 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: